Ashkelon prisoners resume their strike
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/31/2004

Some 800 Palestinian prisoners in Ashkelon jail resumed their food strike after they had suspended it for three days after the administration of the Israeli occupation jails broke its promises to the prisoners, according to a spokesman for the prisoners.

The director of the Palestinian prisoner club Issa Qaraqe' said that the prisoners returned back to their strike after the occupation prisoners administration denied information that the prisoners returned back to their strike, saying that they eat in their cells.

He explained that the detainees decided to return back to strike " after the prison's administration refused to permit them to contact other prisoners as used to be promised in the past." Detainees of Ashkelon prison suspended their strike for three days after the prison administration agreed to join negotiations with them on their demands and to permit them to contact their striking colleagues in other jails.

In the Israeli Talmond prison, the Palestinian women prisoners announced their participation in the strike as from yesterday in case the prisons administration will not respond to their demands. The Palestinian women prisoners said that they suffer difficult conditions and numerous provocations and that the prison administrations forces them to stay nude for inspection.

In solidarity with the prisoners, the mother of one Palestinian prisoner died as a result of a heart attack while she is observing a hunger strike, to be the first victim of the people and international solidarity campaign with the question of the prisoners.

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